Tom give it a rest - I'm surprised you even bother to get up the morning. Stop trawling for bad news, you'll always find it out there, some truth in it of course, from both perspectives.
Brexit, for once some facts.
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Shouldn't you attribute that post to "Conservative Central Office"?
If we taught the Chinese for instance about Nuclear Power for instance why do we need them to build a power station for us now?
And the industry that is still alive is a shadow of it's former self, isn't it?
lets face is your post contained the sort of Platitudes you get in one of the Horsocopes cast for the simple minded.
No substance, no facts, just propaganda Bull.
Utter irrelevance, if we were so good at "International trade" we would not have been desperate to join the EEC , and only keep our heads above water through access to the EU markets now. once they are gone we will be in real trouble.
While being an advocate for change and progress, I do believe that there are certain of the older ways which should be retained... e.g The discipline of getting a written bank statement, credit card billing , utility bill , telephone bill each month, and not a email reminder that I can go on line was a useful check on financial probity. The requirement to fill up a licence fee application for car tax or MoT , TV licence is part of that process. The putting of the little sticker on the car , gives a feeling of virtue and is a constant reminder.
Finally the use of a paper and pencil marked ballot for elections, and none of these electronic machines.
I do find hard to understand how anyone can be so negative as to rubbish anything anyone has to say that is positive. Yin and Yang (Urban) comes to mind or better still, how about this anthem for you to listen to in the morning:
I'm sort of with you having allowed my MOT to over-run by a week or two. But, they now have Email / Text reminder options, in much that same way our local GP prompts for appointments - that certainly works better for me. Could never find the piece of paper when needed, grant you a Tax Disk is fairly clear! Obviously, a Tory plot so that they can catch you out and fine you.
They call it progress through development OG. I suspect the Chinese have built rather more Nuclear Reactors than we have. The have more experience than we do, they also have the benefits of scale. Why on earth would we want to go through the whole process when someone else has already done it, properly. We need to be looking forward for the next opportunities, not over our shoulders.
In a very real sense being within the eu redefines foreign and local so yes being in EU helps. In exactly the same way that ownership of large tracts of Scotland by consortia of Essex dentists is local ownership so is the fleets of French owned buses in London also local. When Brexit occurs they then revert to foreign .
As and if the UK distances itself from mainland European science its opportunities will diminish. The sale of Arm holdings should have been seen as the death knell it is rather than than the triumph it was posted as.
The impending loss of the eu medicines research agency from London is such an own goal in the area of biopharma that it beggers belief.. so how long will the U.K. reputation in academia remain.
I fully agree with your question ... "how can the UK continue to innovate in a vacuum..?" . But my conclusion might differ from yours. !
Dan
I am certainly not suggesting that everything in the garden is perfectly OK, more generalising I guess, in the face of complete negativity. Quite where we end up, Post-Brexit remains to be seen. I say hopefully, no doubt to be criticised by the usual culprits, that we won't see the Armageddon suggested by them.
I'm not so sure that French Bus companies becoming foreign will impact greatly, if at all. Truth be told the cupboard is bare and filling it with plunder from Paradise wouldn't solve our problem, that will take far more than money to resolve. That is about as negative as you will get me. We need a shake-up and I suspect we're going to get one. Fiddling while Rome burns, comes to mind.
I'm with you up to the word "discipline" but I have no issues with the digital option because, thanks to a long period as working poor, I have a financial discipline that makes e-mail reminders unnecessary. My yearly (not weekly or monthly) budget is planned ahead, no surprises one way or the other.
No car.
I haven't voted in over 40 years (no voting rights).
Commendable, but it's not me unfortunately, never been that organised. I'm more of a wing and a prayer, man (which won't surprise many on here). Partly down to having been self-employed for the past 30 years but also having been an electronics engineer in the Army. We didn't have everything we needed so, if necessary, we went out and stole (borrowed) it! In those days, I could walk into a strange room and do an almost instant inventory which I carried with me until needed - quite useful.
Well in my case I have multiple dependents, and there are many cases of "when needs must" . So unplanned expenditure is a weekly occurrence. Case in point, I had occasion to travel urgently via Dublin to London this week and back by car. Flights would not do. My own cars battery failed for first time ever at 7:00 am, boat leaving 8:45 am, journey time 65 minutes . gate closed 8:30. Took wife's car missed gate for boat, by 10 minutes took next but slower boat 5 hrs later,. She needed car , jury duty, so garage tow and new battery 170 euro. .. unplanned but necessary expenditure. Had it failed on a normal day, I would have sorted it for 100.
Getting a statement will help me not forget these incidents, so keeping me on the straight and narrow.
Why am I not surprised that you appear not to care one jot about the disabled and the poor? I condemn that inhumane treatment of other human beings.
For you apparently, it's simple to just ignore the plight of those people, even though thousands have died as a direct result of tory policies in the area of social welfare. I don't understand how human beings in what we usually consider is a civilised country can have so little empathy for the disadvantaged. I raised that matter here just to illustrate the disgraceful attitude of tories towards the poor, the disabled and the otherwise disadvantaged.
These are same people who are going to create even more disadvantaged and poor people by recklessly taking the UK out of the EU, against the expressed wish of nearly 50% of those who responded in a referendum.
Tom
You really don't have a clue what will befall this nation after 'Brexit' but you seem pretty relaxed about it. I suppose that's because you have always had it easy in your life, the army being mummy and daddy to you for much of it.
Some of us had it tough but were fortunate enough to make good with the help of others. My upbringing was hard but some had it much harder than me. OG is from Yorkshire and this film clip is testimony to how things were back then when he was a lad:
See! You don't even know the meaning of tough when compared to the folks on the other side of the Pennines.
Tom
I'm probably an exception in my age group, but I much prefer the online digital way and it's sheer convenience, so much less hassle than these things used to be,
Life will be that much tougher for archaeologists in future though, no paper trails and digital media in formats they have no way of reading.
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And this is even worse! You really don't know what you're talking about - you just spew your insulting rubbish and try to believe that makes you a good, caring man. What do you actually do in this world that makes a real difference?You really don't have a clue what will befall this nation after 'Brexit' but you seem pretty relaxed about it. I suppose that's because you have always had it easy in your life, the army being mummy and daddy to you for much of it.
Some of us had it tough but were fortunate enough to make good with the help of others. My upbringing was hard but some had it much harder than me. OG is from Yorkshire and this film clip is testimony to how things were back then when he was a lad:
See! You don't even know the meaning of tough when compared to the folks on the other side of the Pennines.
Tom